Economists don’t know as much about what causes productivity improvement as they ought to.
Legal restrictions on unions’ workplace access have directly contributed to the significant rise in wage theft in Australia.
While the RBA is concerned about weak productivity growth,some economists question if recent trends can be taken at face value.
Research has found contracts designed to protect company secrets are affecting low-skilled industries too – and it’s threatening the entire economy.
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The AI transformation will pile pressure on the labor force,especially for workers whose activities “were previously considered to be relatively immune from automation”.
We could be working a 15-hour week,but we’ve chosen to take the money and the extra stuff rather than the extra leisure.
No one is a winner from the most recent minimum wage increase. It just highlights the need for real economic changes.
The NSW productivity commissioner wants Sydneysiders to get used to living in apartments,and has called for increased density in the inner city.
The driver behind much of our prosperity has been government and the taxes it has imposed.
If we simply prioritised getting wealthier,there is a considerable risk other dimensions of our lives would suffer.